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Tell me my friends, isn't this a lovely treat?

Not our ordinary padang

Today we set out to try the new padang restaurant called Garuda. It uses the font and colour of the old Garuda Airlines logo, bright red font with small g. The place itself quite is intimidating. Looks more like fine dining restaurant, well at least in my eyes. The room is white. Tables, chairs and plates are white. Plus there is a small white vase with white flowers. Nothing like any padang restaurant that I know. A bit worry on the price...

Food looks great, and lots of variaty to choose. We've picked chicken rendang, ikan kembung, paru, and sayur nangka for the start. Plus es kelapa muda and es teler. On the way we added ikan asin to our pile. Whoa! Food is great. The bumbu rendang is awesome. Love it! As 2 more friends joining our table, we added more food. Gule kikil, ayam cabe ijo, and gule daun singkong. And, of course, more steam rice.

Then it was time to fetch the bill. As we expected, more than our usual nasi padang budget. But nonetheless, it was worth it. We surely come back next time, plus we haven't tried one of their best dishes: ayam pop. And the ayam bumbu kremes looks yummy. Yes, I am sure we'll be back.

Thunder Tea Rice

What a cool name for food. Although it is kinda confusing, is it rice or is it tea? Apparently it is both. It is a traditional Hakka dish, created to stave off hunger without much food.
The rice comes with bean curd, peanuts, ikan bilis, peas, basil and other chopped veggie which names I can't recall. Looks like nasi rames, but without meat. The interesting part is the soup. It is green (see that green thingy? that's not dessert, it's the soup). The green colored is coming from number of leaves used. Green tea, mint, basil, chinese parsley, coriander leaves plus several other ingredients ground together before boiled it in pot. Reminds me of Panoramix' potion...
Some peeps poured the green soup over the rice and mixed all together, but I prefer to leave them separately. The idea of mixing them isn't appetizing for me. The soup taste is dominated by basil flavour. Very strong. And a bit of coriander. The rice is just like any other rice. But this meal is classified as healthy meal, with tons of goodness. From increasing metabolism to anti-aging. Wow! And Panoramix' potion only gives you temporary super strength (unless you dive into the pot). Come to think of that, probably you will be super healthy plus not-aging if you dive into the soup pot. Of course if you can pass the aunty-stall-keepers.

Kung Fu Panda!

When browsing on Lucy Liu (no, not trying to get her nude pics), I found out that one of her new movie is titled Kung Fu Panda. Ho ho ho! I know someone who definitely will go and see this movie. Kung Fu Panda should be released next summer. Wanna know more? Click here then!

Ehem, since AJ is in too... I most probably will join the queue as well.